Lewis Henry Morgan and the invention of kinship / Thomas R. Trautmann ; with a new introduction and appendices by the author.

Author/creator Trautmann, Thomas R.
Format Book
Editionnew ed.
Publication InfoLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Descriptionxviii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects

Contents Kinship and its inventors -- Scale of mind, scale of history -- A lawyer among the Iroquois -- Philology in its relations to ethnology -- Generalizing Iroquois -- Nature and art -- Conjectural history -- Kinship's other inventors -- Of time and ethnology -- Contributions to knowledge -- Appendix 1. The revolution in ethnological time -- Appendix 2. India and the study of kinship terminologies -- Appendix 3. The whole history of kinship terminologies in three chapters : before Morgan, Morgan, and after Morgan.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [335]-354) and index.
LCCN 2008009281
ISBN9780803260061 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0803260067 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks GN 487 .T73 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold